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Christian Ferras plays with a sweet, flexible, strongly girded tone. He ferociously attacks the music’s many wide interval leaps and double-stops, never sacrificing pure intonation
Double CD packages involving Bruckner’s “Romantic” symphony usually pair it with No. 7. Panorama has reissued Herbert von Karajan’s 1975 Berlin Fourth along with his
Seiji Ozawa’s Prokofiev cycle has taken its share of hard knocks over the years, and deservedly so, though I believe most of the problem lies
This is a budget-priced repackaging of Deutsche Grammophon’s deleted 1988 Böhm/Strauss collection, with slightly better sound this time around. The program notes go into deep
What’s not to like? These two concertos were recorded during Mutter and Karajan’s “sweater period”, when all of their album covers, whether for DG or
Had Erich Kleiber not left two significant studio recordings of Beethoven’s Eroica for Decca, this 1955 Stuttgart Radio Orchestra reading would be more valuable to
The main point of interest in Panorama’s new Haydn reissue will be Disc 2 of this set, devoted to the two cello concertos and trumpet
This Panorama release has quite a bit going for it: Lorin Maazel’s bracing and brilliant Firebird suite with the Berlin Radio Symphony (one of the
I may be in a minority, but I prefer Barenboim’s earlier DG Bruckner cycle to this later one. Granted, the Chicago strings may not have
Thomas Beecham’s 1937/38 Magic Flute, the work’s first studio recording (minus spoken dialogue), was highly regarded in its day for both sonic and musical qualities.
